Figurative Language
Comparing two thing without the words “like” or “as”
What is a metaphor?
She has a heart of gold.
What is a metaphor?
The way the rhymes in the poem are ordered.
What is a rhyme scheme?
The repetition of letters/sounds at the beginning of the words.
What is alliteration?
The ABAB structure.
What is rhyme scheme?
Visually descriptive or figurative language in literary work.
What is imagery?
The flowers were dancing in the wind.
What is personification?
The paragraphs within the poem; a group of lines in a poem.
What is a stanza?
The repetition of certain sounds.
What is assonance?
The poem: If ever two were one, then surely we.
If ever man were loved by wife,then thee;
What is end rhyme?
Exaggerated statements or claims that are not meant to be taken literally.
What is a hyperbole?
The candy was bittersweet.
What is an oxymoron?
A stanza consisting of four lines which usually has a rhyme scheme of ABAB.
What is a quatrain?
The words used to incorporate sounds into writing.
What are onomatopoeias?
The student brushed their teeth, packed their bag, and caught the bus.
What is parallel Structure?
A literary device that gives human characteristics to nonhuman things or inanimate objects.
What is personification?
The sweet and sour sauce went perfect with the chicken.
What is juxtaposition?
The repetition of specific words/phrases in a poem.
What is a refrain?
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of a line.
What is an anaphora?
The phrase "Mike likes his new bike."
What is Consonance?
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
What is an oxymoron?
You're carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders.
What is a hyperbole?
The choice of words an author uses in order to set the mood and tone.
What is diction?
The use of the same sounds in poetry; a lot like alliteration but instead the sounds DO NOT have to be at the beginning of the word.
What is consonance?
The phrase, "Ah, I distinctly remember, it was the bleak of december."
What is Internal Rhyme?